Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-09-30
THE TURKISH Ton GUE.
OTTOMAN WORDS the ENaLIst
& LANGUAGE HAS BORROWED.

- Interesting Jumbls Of Pathological
DsduotlSns Not Contemplated " 1Gas
1Iallsr-.A Queer Lit Tor tAs Curiou.
% Look Over. S.
But II q pretty certain that there IS . ycry
4cl1es c0nnsetioM indeed between the Turk
and ~ English. Was thera not q Turkey
b lp1pany founded under Quesn Elizabeth:
s Have not the English backed MP tho Turks
right OF wrong, ever sincef What il the
meaning Of British sympathy Tor tie Bules,
:rians but that these arc firse cousins 81 til
& Turks In blood, albeit Christians II any
mor6pfoof d wanted have NJ not the simi.
lAsity Of the Turkish and Turcoman to the
{ English language to prove IL Philologish
Ike Max Muller have warned tho world
against accidental and apparent verbal re.
ssmblances, hut this il due only to their heal.
ousy, their desire to keep things among them.
selves, their resolve TO recognize no theories
which they do not originals Yet il this Is .
I free country who are the philologists that
they should monopolize any hind Of business
Yor intellectual exercise? So here is to prove
that the English language b an offshoot 81
the Turkish tongue. @
Do We not speak Of st. Patrick, and is not
patrik the Ottoman Word for patriarcha and
may bs st. Patrick wasn't . patriarchi We
speak Of the caves Of . house, and ev is the
Turkish for house Vertigo Is tho feeling of
falling into an abyss; varta is,abyss in Turk
-. We say ny when No mean to agree with
. man; NY il agree. The Scots use the word
bon for the inside Of . honse; beyn means
among, and Is not that Is clear ~ could be
wishedl Boil means ample, hssce bowl, sui
,dcient for q drink; jswAb, pronounced jawb,
isanswer. hence saw, tp giys one piece Of
ones mind. Ruba Is attire, md what else can
robe come 'front.' Befber lis barber, and the
best BARRIERS were found ili the sast till Amer
lea was invented Bath Is the abdomen; and
surely batten, to feed till full must have thus
originated. Bile Is safra, and saffron is the
color of bile-nearly. Gem is u morsel, and
IS not q gem q morsel? Mr.. Sullivan now and
again puts up his darbies and gives his adver-
sary darbu, q blow. II there were no women
in the world thsre would not be so much kiss
ing; hence we note the identity of kiss with
kis, daughter, Busse is a kiss, and we know
of the London girl who shockei Boston lady
by taking bus right in the street.
d. ~, AMONG IRISH WORDS
Now let the Irish have turn Ulu in
Turkish means dead. and what does the Irish
keen begin with but Ulalonea Dere is valley.
and every place call ed wholly a. partly Derry
in Ireland is in a valley. Bog is Turkish for
deluge, and is not beg place where there
was deluge and where there is now turfar
another word for deluge-or turf? Kilisse
is church, and do they not speak of Columb-
kill, or St. Columbia's, church? So in the
Scotch. bittock is a maiety, as they say, "a
mile and hittock;" but bichook is Turkish
for half. Bit is end, and what is a bit but
piece off an end2 Both ireland and Scot
land grow plenty of oats--as Dr. johnson
said, Stood i'll Scotland for m,n, in England
for horses, +" and OF is Turkish for forage. II
all this is not enough there is more in stock.
Mohammed prohibits intoxlation; ich is
drink, and hiccup-or cockney, 'icchup-the
result Of drink. The English accuse the
Americans of corrupting the common Ian
guage by using the imperative "git" for 20,
bur the Turk saysto Il beggar git, because it
is the imperative Of gidelirn, to CO.
An Osmanli boy calls his grandfather dede,
and an Oslnanli uncle CALI his son neve.
When all Ottoman girl is clidtlen she holds
down her head, bash, and is abashed; when
she is wooed she does the same with her bash,
and is bashful. When she g,ts married she
probably has to do the cookilg-that Is, boil
ing or hashlan; hence, no doubt, hash; and
how many American dyspe,tics wish the
Turks had kept the word aid the thing at
home! But if she becomes a good cook she is
called ashji-that is, apparently, of the ashes,
or one who works among asnes. lit may be
surmised that this is All empE guess or bosh,
for bosh means empty, justas mum means
wax-that is, "close as wax"-and serin
means cool, whence in warn countries "all
serenen is similarly applied. each means es-
cape, not, as might be supposed, arrest; but
this, is the way of the wodd in torturing
meanings; and keGi or keti isa cat. not u kit
ten, and cawka is u fight, moi On assembly of
politicians. But do!dur is load, as when
one is i'll the doldrunls; kodjais All Old man,
or elder. not a codger, and kabagi is guard,
and not cabbage. Turkish soldiers get but
. portion even Of their me.ger: pay, hence
pay means portion. Chok is much, or very,
and do not we in the yulgarty Of youth say
chok full. HE.l,
:, AN ADDITIONAL LIST.
When boy is masticating candy, q man
= plug, Or girl gum, they chine, that is,
chew, because they move their chins: They
may stand Oh tho kuyi, or coast, of Coney Is